Without prior warning, the Cloverfield Paradox’ trailer appeared. What I thought was set up during the second world war was wrong, Paradox is set in outer space. The second world war setting will only be release at the end of 2018 if they’re not pushing back the schedule. In the meantime, The Cloverfield Paradox can be watched via streaming if you are a Netflix customer.

Ava Hamilton (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) decides to leave for a mission in outer space on a particle accelerator test mission called Shepard. If their mission successful then the ongoing energy crisis on planet Earth will end. Yup! The planet is being hit by an energy crisis and on the verge of inter-state warfare, the ‘7-crew’ team working on Shepard in the Earth’s orbit is the mainstay of mankind. For 2 years they do a lot of tests and always fail until finally … it happened … the disaster. Shepard was overloaded and nearly blew up the space station along with it’s crew. Strangely, something miraculous happened, they survived the destruction but lost the planet earth, which was originally visible from their window now disappear from sight. And other peculiarities began to occur in their space station, one by one the crew died as if there were something (evil) who claimed their lives. Do you still remember the movie ‘Event Horizon’ (1997)? Yes it’s similiar like that. Will they survive? Yeah, i guess so… but not really…

Do you remember the Cloverfield movie (2008)? What about the 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)? Does Paradox have anything to do with both films? I think there is, though it feels complicated because it involves parallel universe. Compared to the previous two Cloverfield movies, Paradox is the worst. It’s not just me who has high expectations after watching 10 Cloverfield Lane and when the hype about ‘God Particle’ a few years ago is quite interesting. Somehow the director Julius Onah like to cram a lot of material / ideas in this movie and finally left out in editing room. Watching this movie raised a lot of questions in my head, especially if we associate it with two previous films. The story kinda sucks and it makes the actors became impressed redundant. It feels like these great talents seem to be in vain.

If you’re a big fan of Cloverfield you may be disappointed but this movie also offers the answer that has been running around in our heads for some times, although eventually it also raises more questions after you’re watching this one. The Cloverfield connection is definitely there but you have to be really keen on the details that could have been missed. If you do not know at all about Cloverfield, this movie can still be enjoyed as a standalone scifi, instead you will be curious to find out more about Cloverfield that may lead to … confusion. So let’s wait for the next Cloverfield series and hopefully not as bad as Paradox.

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